

Street of Chance
"Who am I? Am I a killer? Who are the women that love me?" I can't remember!
In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man's memory is recovered after being injured by falling construction material. Discovering a year-long lapse, he returns to his old life and discovers a lot of mysterious happenings.
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- English
- new york city
- amnesia
- based on novel or book
- film noir
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- TheatricalNR3 Oct 1942
- PremiereNRNew York City, New York18 Nov 1942
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Street of Chance was released on 3 October 1942.
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2- J6.5/10
John Chard
4/5/2014
As luck would have it… Street of Chance is directed by Jack Hively and adapted to screenplay by Garrett Fort from the novel "The Black Curtain" written by Cornell Woolrich. It stars Burgess Meredith, Claire Trevor, Louise Platt, Sheldon Leonard, Frieda Inescort and Jerome Cowan. Music is by David Buttolph and cinematography by Theodor Sparkuhl. After being felled by falling wreckage from a New York building,…
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CinemaSerf
9/1/2025
The complexities of the plot don’t readily make for a succinct summary but the interweaving stories of “Frank” and “Danny” (Burgess Meredith) make themselves pretty clear from the mysterious outset. It’s “Frank” who narrowly avoids some falling masonry only to awaken in hospital with what appears to be a completely different identity. Inexplicably pursued by a strange man (Sheldon Leonard), he visits his erstwhile ho…
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